Please join us for the second in a four-part Webinar series discussing behavioral health issues for children and families in rural areas. The Rural Behavioral Health Webinar Series 2012 is sponsored by the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch, and the Mental Health Promotion Branch, Center for Mental Health Services, at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in collaboration with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention, the National TA Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University, and the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health.
Title:
The Affordable Care Act: Considerations for School Behavioral Health Programs in Rural Communities
Presenters:
· Ron Manderscheid, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Directors
· Terry Lawler, Project Director, Safe Schools/Healthy Students, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Description:
This webinar will be an interactive discussion regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the implementation of school-based behavioral health programs. Ron Manderscheid will provide a presentation about the overall trends in health care reform and the implications for behavioral health. He will also discuss the importance of rural schools as a major setting for behavioral health care and explore key planning and implementation strategies that communities can explore for financing these critical prevention and treatment services for children, youth, and young adults. Features of the ACA will be discussed as well as considerations for providers working with children (ages birth to 24) and families in rural communities.
Terry Lawler will share examples of infrastructure, partnership, system integration with promotion, prevention and treatment, and funding of mental and behavioral health in schools and community settings. This will include a discussion of an approach to create collaborative teams of school staff and community providers that are essential to coordinating and integrating mental, emotional, and behavioral health. She will identify key elements necessary for communities to build infrastructure that support coordination among providers and finance sources for prevention. Terry will also discuss an approach used in accessing and maximizing funding for child behavioral health that will support your community as you manage reform with the ACA. Lastly, she will discuss potential implications for strengthening this work in rural schools through the ACA, illustrating examples of how their successful management of funding changes, such as a reduction of TANF dollars.
Date/Time:
June 27, 2012 3:00–4:30 p.m. E.D.T.
Event Registration:
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